RE: Smoke Alarms & Photon Beams Don't Mix

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>]

At 05:10 PM 2/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>the ionization of smokey air is different from clear air.
>Therefore, anything that ionizes the air in the chamber will set it off.

I think the smoke particles attract ions, and so decrease the current - the
device alarms when there are fewer ions ... so now I am puzzled.

mike
Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
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